Books
The Best Part of Mary Heilmann’s Memoir Is the Paintings
The All Night Movie recounts the artist’s experiences in New York’s art world of the 1970s and ’80s with a list of mostly bygone names and places.
Review
Art
Expressionism Turned Inside Out
Kyung-Me’s disciplined focus on minute details is inseparable from a vast grotto of feelings that she has channeled and kept in check.
Performance
Dancing Toward Peace and Healing
In She Who Lives on the Road to War, Rosy Simas combines installation and performance to address the immense losses experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Performance
Finding Medea in LA’s Chinatown
MILK is an immersive, multisensory collaborative performance exploring a somber Greek tale of revenge.
Books
Alain George’s Detailed View of Art, Faith, and Empire in Syria
Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George's The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning, and significance.
Art
The Collective Ethos at the Heart of Asian-American Activism
Voice a Wild Dream dismantles the idea that activism is driven by individual charismatic figures; in reality, social change is possible because many hands come together.
Film
All That Breathes Redefines the “Nature Doc”
Capturing an urban ecosystem of animals and humans, Shaunak Sen’s second feature sits somewhere between a nature doc, political drama, and touching family portrait.
Art
Bernice Bing’s Search for a Unified Self
Bing's search was not about style, being fashionable, or fitting in. It was about trying to acknowledge the multiple worlds one inhabits.
Art
The Sesame Street of Art History
Artist Jayson Musson guides a potty-mouthed, weed-obsessed bunny named Ollie through his version of art history.
Art
Joiri Minaya Breaks Through the Camouflage
For years, Minaya reflected warped perceptions of Indigenous and diasporic peoples by concealing bodies in textiles; now, she is revealing the people behind the patterns.
Film
The Couple Behind One of History's Most Brazen Art Heists
The Thief Collector goes beyond the 1985 theft of Willem de Kooning’s “Woman-Ochre” to explore the speculative history of the presumed thieves who held onto it for over 30 years.
Film
No Bears Questions the Power of Cinema
With his latest film, Jafar Panahi suggests that cinema might be a great art worth fighting for, but it may not be able to save anyone.